They retained by force the royal castles, which they had seized during the past convulsions, or which had been committed to their custody by the protector;[**] they usurped the king's demesnes;[***] they oppressed their vassals; they infested their weaker neighbors; they invited all disorderly people to enter in their retinue, and to live upon their lands; and they gave them protection in all their robberies and extortions.
* Brady's App.No.144.Chron.Dunst.

vol.i.p.

83.
** M.Paris, p.210.

* Trivet, p.

174 *** Rymer, vol.i.p.